But recently been busy-to-the-nth-degree. Instead of just cleaning the house to prepare for our guest, I've been first cleaning it to prepare for workmen to tromp through it, giving them access to places I've not seen in years.

And making a bigger mess in order to give myself access to the mold (black? brown? something else?) that's working on making a hole through the floor/carpet/wall just about underneath where my head is when I'm asleep. Maybe one foot over and 2.5 down? It's been attacking the molding for a few feet in each direction as well.

Don't want to think about sleeping with a toxin, or about getting up close and personal with it while trying to clean it up, but I _can_ hope that once it is gone I will start to benefit more from all the time I spend "asleep".

Bummer re finding black mold. I'm not clear what surface it's on but using KILZ may be worth investigating.

My rule when prepping for invasion by workmen, particularly contractors, is to visualize goons with sledgehammers... and to set things up to make it *difficult* for them to accidentally (read, carelessly) damage ANYTHING I care about.

My biggest problem is having Too Much Stuff - (all of which I care about)- so the act of shoveling a path across my office took knee-and-waist-high stuff into chest-and-ceiling-high boxes of stuff, with a path through it.

The stuff-I'm-assuming-is-mold is in the carpet, on the molding, and on the drywall. Not a large area, a few square inches on the carpet, a bunch on the molding and then a foot or so along the edge between the carpet and the drywall.

I think I have some KILZ left over from my last painting project. (Good idea -- thanks.) This morning before I left for work I applied moderate amounts of straight bleach... and it might be power of suggestion, but the area on the carpet now looks more ... spotty.